Trace Dominguez | No, Your Brain is NOT a Computer… it's BETTER! (Part 3) @TraceDominguez | Uploaded 4 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
The brain is faster than Google, more secure than Apple, and more adaptable than Linux. 🤯 We should stop comparing brains and computers… no really!
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Metaphors have been used to describe the intangible human experience for as long as history has been recorded. When it comes to describing the brain we've tried clocks, water-balanced mechanisms, mechanical robots, and today we use technology! And yet, none of these metaphors are right (or even close, really). Find out more!
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0:00 Metaphorically speaking
4:14 Is the brain a computer?
6:12 Spike, Computer, Action!
7:44 Writing to the brain
13:28 'First' Fist Bump
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How do #BrainComputerInterfaces actually read data from the brain? What is the language of the brain? How can we learn to speak that language? What's the best way to control a prosthetic arm, or to become a cyborg? In this series, I look at these advanced pieces of BCI technology & talk to biomedical engineering experts about EEG, fMRI, ECoG, & all the technologies we use to read what the brain is doing while hidden inside our skull. This series is all about how we can #UpgradeYourBrain! Stick around for all the episodes and click here to subscribe so you don't miss any: http://bit.ly/subscribe-to-trace
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PART I 🧠 Connecting to the brain!
youtu.be/FPJDA9t3_m8
PART II 🤔 Language of the Brain
youtu.be/RJ3YU7WZT-w
PART III 👩💻 Brains are not computers
youtu.be/q_weZoxKmJA
PART IV 💾 Download from the brain?
youtu.be/NdxFFAT_6WM
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Tech Metaphors Are Holding Back Brain Research
wired.com/story/tech-metaphors-are-holding-back-brain-research
It’s easy to assume that the seat of human intelligence is similar to our increasingly smart devices. But that idea could be misdirecting neuroscience.
Metaphors and Historical Conceptions of the Brain
http://mechanism.ucsd.edu/~bill/teaching/w12/philneuro/metaphorsandconceptionsofbrain.key.pdf
"The brain, the masterpiece of creation, is almost unknown to us." -- Nicolaus Steno, 1669
The computer as a metaphor for psychological inquiry: Considerations and recommendations
link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03201006.pdf
My concern is with the computer as a metaphor for explaining perception and action. A representative sample of arguments for and against the paradigm are presented and evaluated. The conclusion is that the idea of computation is productive for achieving a functionalist description of how we perceive and act.
The empty brain: Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain – or copies of words, pictures, grammatical rules or any other kinds of environmental stimuli. The human brain isn’t really empty, of course. But it does not contain most of the things people think it does – not even simple things such as ‘memories’.
The Language Of The Brain
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4763947/
OUR BRAINS ARE BETTER THAN GOOGLE OR THE BEST ROBOT FROM iROBOT. We can instantly search through a vast wealth of experiences and emotions. We can immediately recognize the face of a parent, spouse, friend or pet, whether in daylight, darkness, from above or sideways—a task that the computer vision system built into the most sophisticated robots can accomplish only haltingly.
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Love you, #nerdfam! Stay #curious!
The brain is faster than Google, more secure than Apple, and more adaptable than Linux. 🤯 We should stop comparing brains and computers… no really!
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Metaphors have been used to describe the intangible human experience for as long as history has been recorded. When it comes to describing the brain we've tried clocks, water-balanced mechanisms, mechanical robots, and today we use technology! And yet, none of these metaphors are right (or even close, really). Find out more!
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📚CHAPTERS
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0:00 Metaphorically speaking
4:14 Is the brain a computer?
6:12 Spike, Computer, Action!
7:44 Writing to the brain
13:28 'First' Fist Bump
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🧠 SERIES DESCRIPTION
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How do #BrainComputerInterfaces actually read data from the brain? What is the language of the brain? How can we learn to speak that language? What's the best way to control a prosthetic arm, or to become a cyborg? In this series, I look at these advanced pieces of BCI technology & talk to biomedical engineering experts about EEG, fMRI, ECoG, & all the technologies we use to read what the brain is doing while hidden inside our skull. This series is all about how we can #UpgradeYourBrain! Stick around for all the episodes and click here to subscribe so you don't miss any: http://bit.ly/subscribe-to-trace
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PART I 🧠 Connecting to the brain!
youtu.be/FPJDA9t3_m8
PART II 🤔 Language of the Brain
youtu.be/RJ3YU7WZT-w
PART III 👩💻 Brains are not computers
youtu.be/q_weZoxKmJA
PART IV 💾 Download from the brain?
youtu.be/NdxFFAT_6WM
Hey, thanks for watching! 😊
If you want to help grow this channel, just share a video with a friend or three! Shares make a HUGE difference and don't cost you anything at all.
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Tech Metaphors Are Holding Back Brain Research
wired.com/story/tech-metaphors-are-holding-back-brain-research
It’s easy to assume that the seat of human intelligence is similar to our increasingly smart devices. But that idea could be misdirecting neuroscience.
Metaphors and Historical Conceptions of the Brain
http://mechanism.ucsd.edu/~bill/teaching/w12/philneuro/metaphorsandconceptionsofbrain.key.pdf
"The brain, the masterpiece of creation, is almost unknown to us." -- Nicolaus Steno, 1669
The computer as a metaphor for psychological inquiry: Considerations and recommendations
link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03201006.pdf
My concern is with the computer as a metaphor for explaining perception and action. A representative sample of arguments for and against the paradigm are presented and evaluated. The conclusion is that the idea of computation is productive for achieving a functionalist description of how we perceive and act.
The empty brain: Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain – or copies of words, pictures, grammatical rules or any other kinds of environmental stimuli. The human brain isn’t really empty, of course. But it does not contain most of the things people think it does – not even simple things such as ‘memories’.
The Language Of The Brain
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4763947/
OUR BRAINS ARE BETTER THAN GOOGLE OR THE BEST ROBOT FROM iROBOT. We can instantly search through a vast wealth of experiences and emotions. We can immediately recognize the face of a parent, spouse, friend or pet, whether in daylight, darkness, from above or sideways—a task that the computer vision system built into the most sophisticated robots can accomplish only haltingly.
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Love you, #nerdfam! Stay #curious!
![Do Dads Even Matter? [Part 1]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rRvgBIcUdpM/hqdefault.jpg "Do Dads Even Matter? [Part 1]
I just had a kid, so Im diving into the science behind dad parenting. || This episode was supported by Nebula! Join now and watch the video with no ads while you support me and other indy creators: https://nebula.tv/videos/uno-dos-of-trace-do-dads-even-matter ✨sources & more below the fold ✨
#Dads need to be present, engaged, and involved to make smart, successful, powerful kids. So where are the dads? Why do so many dads think their roles are superfluous? Whats the science here?
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Dads exist in every culture and in every animal on earth and yet, in humans theyre not often studied, and sometimes ignored entirely. In this series, I dug into the importance of dads in human relationships. I learned that #Dads need to be present, engaged, and involved. How having a dad around affects you (for better or worse). That meant exploring what it means to be a dad, whether the kids same-sex parents are any different than those of different-sex parents, how children physiologically change their parents brain, and whether toxic masculinity and machismo is harming your kids.
Dads are more than just a male parent (they dont even have to be). Theyre a set of traits that show children who they can be and are different than their other parent. Dads are source of security, safety, play, communication, emotion, empathy, love, and companionship (Just like any other parent). Non-birthing parents have a different outlook than birthing parents simply because they’re different human beings!
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00:00 Family update
00:50 What is Mens Work?
3:14 Longitudinal studies
4:27 Lets see the results
5:42 Get involved!
7:04 This Trix® aint just for kids
8:18 Co-parents, Out-of-Home Dads & more
12:25 A bit about my dad
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PART 1 Do Dads Even Matter? https://youtu.be/rRvgBIcUdpM
PART 2 Same-Sex Parenting https://youtu.be/p1SmwZ4sMtI
PART 3 Babies Change Your Brain https://youtu.be/5-1FGxsIIU0
PART 4 Is Machoism Hurting Your Kids? https://youtu.be/vprl_hfrgCQ
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Involved Fathers Play An Important Role In Children’s Lives
https://www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/involved-fathers-play-an-important-role-in-childrens-lives/#_ednref16
Just as the nature of family has changed in the past several decades, so has the definition of father.
Add Health Study
https://addhealth.cpc.unc.edu
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year, and have been followed for five waves to date, most recently in 2016-18.
A Matter of Time: Father Involvement and Child Cognitive Outcomes
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jomf.12532
Fathers in Western countries allocate progressively more time to child care. However, most research on how parental time inputs affect child development focuses on maternal time. It remains unclear how paternal involvement in the childs upbringing influences child outcomes.
Involved fathering and mens adult development: Provisional balances
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2002-01956-000
Synthesizes theoretical and empirical writings from different fields to bring forth understanding of the relationships between fathering and mens adult development.
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![SciComm Happy Hour LIVE #4 :: (feat. Vanessa Hill [Braincraft], Eloisa Noble, Bobak Ferdowsi)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vf0nLO_waRg/hqdefault.jpg "SciComm Happy Hour LIVE #4 :: (feat. Vanessa Hill [Braincraft], Eloisa Noble, Bobak Ferdowsi)
Since weve all got work from home jobs now, why not join some #scicomm nerds on a live stream?
(~~segment times to come!~~)
@eloisanoble talks about how animals see the world!
@nessyhill chats about nostalgia in the age of #coronavirus
@bobak wonders where the name Triscuit comes from (see the twitter thread below) and then taught us how to make bacon fat whiskey!
Triscuit twitter thread:
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Just because were apart, doesnt mean we cant learn together! Take care of yourselves and #washyourhands!
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![These Toxic Habits Hurt You & Your Fam [Part 4]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vprl_hfrgCQ/hqdefault.jpg "These Toxic Habits Hurt You & Your Fam [Part 4]
How are #stereotypes affecting our kids? What about toxic masculinity? Gender norms? Outdated assumptions? || This episode was supported by Nebula. Join and support me and other creators: https://nebula.tv/videos/tracedominguez-3-stereotypes-that-hurt-kids-and-how-to-stop-them ✨sources & more below the fold ✨
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Dads exist in every culture and in every animal on earth and yet, in humans theyre not often studied, and sometimes ignored entirely. In this series, I dug into the importance of dads in human relationships. I learned that #Dads need to be present, engaged, and involved. How having a dad around affects you (for better or worse). That meant exploring what it means to be a dad, whether the kids same-sex parents are any different than those of different-sex parents, how children physiologically change their parents brain, and whether toxic #masculinity and machismo is harming your kids.
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00:00 The best intro I have ever done
00:49 American Dad vs Yondu Udonta
02:32 Attachment Theory
04:01 One Provider Stereotype
06:55 Theres no such thing as less of a man
08:56 How is Canada doing?
10:47 The Sick Social Cycle
12:19 Heres a BIG solution for Dads (and every…
13:29 Some Paid Family Leave benefits
17:13 I dont know if this series is going to do well
These science communication videos take a long time to research and put together. I do everything myself in my spare time! Support my Patreon to help me make more videos and get a few perks along the way: http://patreon.com/tracedominguez
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PART 1 Do Dads Even Matter? https://youtu.be/rRvgBIcUdpM
PART 2 Same-Sex Parenting https://youtu.be/p1SmwZ4sMtI
PART 3 Babies Change Your Brain https://youtu.be/5-1FGxsIIU0
PART 4 Is Machoism Hurting Your Kids? https://youtu.be/vprl_hfrgCQ
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Caring for infants is associated with increased reproductive success for male mountain gorillas
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-33380-4
Socioecological theory predicts that male parenting among mammals should be rare due to the large payoffs of prioritizing mating effort over parenting. Although these predictions are generally met, in some promiscuous primate species males overcome this by identifying their offspring, and providing benefits such as protection and resource access.
Bowlbys Evolutionary Theory of Attachment
http://labs.psychology.illinois.edu/~rcfraley/attachment.htm
The theory of attachment was originally developed by John Bowlby (1907 - 1990), a British psychoanalyst who was attempting to understand the intense distress experienced by infants who had been separated from their parents.
THE ONE WITH THE THREE KINGS (*Britneys toxic music plays*)
Does Adherence to Masculine Norms Shape Fathering Behavior?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jomf.12476
Fathers who more closely adhere to masculine norms are less involved in instrumental and expressive parenting and are more likely to engage in harsh discipline than fathers who are less masculine.
Fathers’ Paternity Leave-Taking and Children’s Perceptions of Father-Child Relationships in the United States
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7030161/
The Sick Social Cycle (this was created by someone from my undergrad and I took this EXACT workshow when I was learning about it!)
https://www.slideshare.net/joshuapelton/sick-punish
In escaping a perpetrators aversive behavior, the victim unintentionally reinforces that aversive behavior.
A fresh look at paternity leave: Why the benefits extend beyond the personal
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/a-fresh-look-at-paternity-leave-why-the-benefits-extend-beyond-the-personal
Fathers who take leave help their partners, their families, and themselves. In this era of employee mental-health challenges, companies should take notice.
A National Paid Leave Program Would Help Workers, Families
https://www.cbpp.org/research/economy/a-national-paid-leave-program-would-help-workers-families
Providing new parents with paid time off to care for newborn or recently adopted children contributes to healthy development, improves maternal health, and enhances families’ economic security.
Hey, thanks for watching! I hope you found this edutainment edutaining. 😊
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